The Moodle Journal chronicles using podcasts, streaming, downloads, training, metadata, scorm, lessons, quizzes, forums, chat, journals, LAMS, Mahara and assignments in the deployment of the Moodle vle as part of our e-learning programme here at College.

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Mind mapping for free

I came across a nice little freebe the other day that’s worth a look, it’s a web based mind-mapping tool called ThinkLink. In use it’s an intuitive application, students drag and drop various symbols onto the main stage and then type text into them, which in turn gets over any legibility issues. We are about to trial a mobile BlueTooth graphic pad in class and I feel tools like ThinkLink are going to come into their own.

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VLE Tools

Audacity is a freeware audio editor that is
ideally suited for producing podcasts.

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CamStudio from Macromedia is the easiest way
to create interactive demonstrations and software simulations in Flash format, and includes visible and audible mouse
movements.

CourseGenie is a tool that will help you to
take course material in Word format and efficiently transform it into a dynamic online course.

Just give EclipseCrossword a list of words
and clues, and it does the rest. In seconds, you'll have a crossword puzzle with just the words you want.

Doppler is a podcast aggregator thats small
and easy to use.

RealProducer Helix Basic is perfect for
users who want to create quality webcasts, on demand audio and video and synchronised media.

Hot Potatoes is a suite of tools that allow
you to develop various quiz type exercises using a GUI interface, the output files can be run as webpages or imported into a
VLE.

Lame is a plug-in for the Audacity audio
editor that will facilitate saving output in MP3 format.

Moodle is an Open source VLE designed to
facilitate the creation and delivery of online courses.

Pageflip is an open source Macromedia Flash
page turning book simulation that is ideal for small eBook projects.